About the Author

Gregory J. E. Rawlins
left a childhood on the shores of Trinidad
to study computer science in the wilds of Waterloo, Canada.
He now finds himself
a professor of computer science
at Indiana University, Bloomington,
smoking far too many cigarettes.
Surrounded by several thousand books,
he works in the gentle glare of his computer monitors,
reading, writing, and supporting Bloomington bookstore owners
in the style to which they have become accustomed.

The benevolence of an overindulgent
public has encouraged him to write,
then publish,
several books over the years.
Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology
is soon to be followed by its sister tome,
Slaves of the Machine: The Quickening of Computer Technology.
Additional publications are amusing,
but will probably remain undiscovered by the general public
outside of the technical audience they address.
A rumored science fiction novel,
Merlin's Children,
co-written with
Dedaimia Whitney,
may indeed be
published shortly before it has become science fact.

Besides regularly springing his books upon a trusting and unsuspecting public,
he also delights in speaking on the future of electronic publishing
and other aspects of the economics and sociology of computer technology.
A research scientist by profession,
he toils in the fields of artificial intelligence,
making genetic algorithms his particular interest.